Chemistry Letters
Vol. 33, No. 12 (December, 2004)

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Web Release Date: October 30, 2004

1534 Strategies for the Development of Visible-light-driven Photocatalysts for Water Splitting  Akihiko Kudo, Hideki Kato, and Issei Tsuji [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Photocatalysts for water splitting developed by the present authors are reviewed. A NiO (0.2 wt %)/NaTaO3:La (2%) photocatalyst with a 4.1-eV band gap showed high activity for water splitting into H2 and O2 with an apparent quantum yield of 56% at 270 nm. Many visible-light-driven photocatalysts have also been developed through band engineering by doping of metal cations, forming new valence bands with Bi6s, Sn5s, and Ag4d orbitals, and by making solid solutions between ZnS with wide band gap and narrow band gap semiconductors. Overall water splitting under visible light irradiation has been achieved by construction of a Z-scheme photocatalysis system employing the visible-light-driven photocatalysts for H2 and O2 evolution, and the Fe3+/ Fe2+ redox couple as an electron relay.

Web Release Date: October 30, 2004

1540 Enhanced Catalytic Activity of Non-platinum Catalyst for Oxygen Reduction in Alkaline Solution  Keijiro Sawai and Nobuhisa Suzuki [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: October 30, 2004

1542 Effects of Pressure on the Thermal Back Electron Transfer in a Dibenzylbipyridinium Salt. Solvent Reorganizations and Dynamic Solvent Effects  Mehdi S. Shihab, Koji Kubota, Toru Takahashi, Yasushi Ohga, and Tsutomu Asano [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: October 30, 2004

1544 Photochemical and Enzymatic Synthesis of Methanol from HCO3− with Dehydrogenases and Zinc Porphyrin  Yutaka Amao and Tomoe Watanabe [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: October 30, 2004

1546 Formation of TaC Nanorods with a Low-Temperature Chemical Route  Liang Shi, Yunle Gu, Luyang Chen, Zeheng Yang, Jianhua Ma, and Yitai Qian [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: October 30, 2004

1548 Porous TiO2 (anatase) Electrodes for High-Power Batteries  Hirotoshi Yamada, Takanori Yamato, Isamu Moriguchi, and Tetsuichi Kudo [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: October 30, 2004

1550 Gene Detection Based on the Tetrakis-acridinyl Peptide (TAP) Cassette  Keiji Mizuki, Takahiko Nojima, and Shigeori Takenaka [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: October 30, 2004

1552 Preparation of Biodegradable Hollow Nanocapsules by Silica Template Method  Yuki Itoh, Michiya Matsusaki, Toshiyuki Kida, and Mitsuru Akashi [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 6, 2004

1554 Introduction of Peptide Functions into DNA by Nucleic Acid Peptides, NAPs  Junji Kawakami, Zhong-Ming Wang, Hiroyoshi Fujiki, Satoshi Izumi, and Naoki Sugimoto [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 6, 2004

1556 Thermal Stability of Mononuclear Hydroperoxocopper(II) Species. Effects of Hydrogen Bonding and Hydrophobic Field  Syuhei Yamaguchi, Akira Wada, Shigenori Nagatomo, Teizo Kitagawa, Koichiro Jitsukawa, and Hideki Masuda [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]  [Supporting Information]

Web Release Date: November 6, 2004

1558 Effect of Cetyldimethylbetaine Molecules on Agglomeration and Growth of Ice  Poly R. Modak, Hiromoto Usui, Hiroshi Suzuki, and Takaaki Inada [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 6, 2004

1560 Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes/Co3O4 Nanocomposites and Its Electrochemical Performance in Lithium Storage  Yan Shan and Lian Gao [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 13, 2004

1562 The Preparation of TiO2 Nanoparticle Photocatalysts by a Flame Method and Their Photocatalytic Reactivity for the Degradation of 2-Propanol  Bernaurdshaw Neppolian, Hyun Seock Jie, Jae-Pyoung Ahn, Jong-Ku Park, and Masakazu Anpo [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 6, 2004

1564 Synthesis of Nickel Nanocrystallites with Hexagonal Flake-like Morphology from Nickel Dimethylglyoximate  Xiaomin Ni, Lifu Chen, Huagui Zheng, Dongen Zhang, Qingbiao Zhao, and Jimei Song [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 6, 2004

1566 Successive Phase Transitions in Crystalline State of Mesogenic Butyl 4-[2-(Perfluorooctyl)ethoxy]benzoate  Minako Maeda, Motoi Nagasawa, Makoto Tachibana, Hitoshi Kawaji, Tooru Atake, Akifumi Iida, Tomoji Ozeki, and Kayako Hori [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 13, 2004

1568 Sensitized Photoluminescence of Eu3+ and Gd3+-Doped Y3Al5O12 Phosphors Prepared via a Reverse Microemulsion Process  Chung-Hsin Lu and Chien-Hao Huang [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 13, 2004

1570 Preparation and Properties of 1,2-Bis[(2,4,6-tri-t-butylphenyl)phosphinidene]cyclobuta[l]phenanthrene  Akitake Nakamura, Subaru Kawasaki, Kozo Toyota, and Masaaki Yoshifuji [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 13, 2004

1572 Novel Layered Organic–Inorganic Networks Assembled From PbI2 and N,N′-bis(3-pyridylmethyl)-1,4-biphenylenedimethyleneimine  Ling-Yan Kong, Zheng-Hua Zhang, Taka-aki Okamura, Ming-Jian Fei, Wei-Yin Sun, and Norikazu Ueyama [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 13, 2004

1574 Synthesis of Carbon Nanofoams and Nanospheres by Varying Ratio of Phenol–Formaldehyde Resin to Mesoporous Silica Foams  Dong-Wun Chen, Chun-Yi Chang-Chien, Hong-Ping Lin, Yen-Po Lin, and Chin-Yuan Tang [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 13, 2004

1576 Platinum Thin Film with a Highly Ordered Mesostructure by Contact Plating  Yusuke Yamauchi, Tokihiko Yokoshima, Toshiyuki Momma, Tetsuya Osaka, and Kazuyuki Kuroda [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 13, 2004

1578 Templateless Hydrothermal Synthesis of Aligned ZnO Nanorods  Yongnan Zhao and Young-Uk Kwon [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 13, 2004

1580 Formation of [Cu(η2-H2)]+ Species in MFI-type Zeolite and Resulting H–D Exchange Reaction with Hydrogen on Brønsted Acid Sites at 300 K  Yasushige Kuroda, Takae Okamoto, Toshinori Mori, and Yuzo Yoshikawa [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 13, 2004

1582 Aminopropyl–Glucose Sequentially Grafted Mesoporous Silica Nanocomposite as a Novel Boron Adsorbent  Masataka Yasui, Masataka Ikeda, Kazuo Takimiya, Joji Ohshita, Shoji Yamanaka, and Kei Inumaru [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 13, 2004

1584 Dansylation of Endocrine-disrupting Alkylphenolic Compounds on the Solid Phase Used for Extraction from Environmental Water  Bunji Uno, Jiro Katsumi, and Kazumi Aoki [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 13, 2004

1586 In Situ Ligand Synthesis for a Novel 1-D Mn Coordination Polymer  Ding Weng, Yude Wang, Ranbo Yu, Ruji Wang, Dan Wang, Qiang Cai, Hengde Li, and Youwei Yao [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 13, 2004

1588 One-pot Synthesis of Furo[3,2-c]oxepin-4-one Derivatives by the CAN-mediated Reaction of tert-Butyl 2-(2-Hydroxytetrahydrofuran-2-yl)acetates with Alkenes  Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Hironobu Umakoshi, Kazutaka Hayashi, Osamu Morikawa, and Hisatoshi Konishi [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 13, 2004

1590 Discovery of a Magnetic Ionic Liquid [bmim]FeCl4  Satoshi Hayashi and Hiro-o Hamaguchi [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 13, 2004

1592 Cross Metathesis Route in Sphingomyelin Synthesis  Hiroko Hasegawa, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Sho Hatano, Toshikazu Hakogi, and Shigeo Katsumura [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 13, 2004

1594 A New Family of Zwitterionic Liquids Arising from a Phase Transition of Ammonium Inner Salts Containing an Ether Bond  Masahiro Yoshizawa and Hiroyuki Ohno [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 13, 2004

1596 Redox Behavior of New Ru–Dioxolene–Ammine Complexes and Catalytic Activity toward Electrochemical Oxidation of Alcohol under Mild Conditions  Takami Hino, Tohru Wada, Tetsuaki Fujihara, and Koji Tanaka [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 13, 2004

1598 Preparation and Photocurrent Generation of Nanostructured SnO2 Films Chemically Modified with Mono-substituted C60-Malonic Acid  Hideo Ohkita, Yuta Shimazaki, Masataka Ohoka, and Shinzaburo Ito [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 13, 2004

1600 Pathway to Insoluble Aggregates on the Refolding of a Single-chain Fv Antibody: Morphological Changes of Aggregated Protein on Refolding  Mitsuo Umetsu, Kumar Ashish, Kouhei Tsumoto, and Izumi Kumagai [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 13, 2004

1602 Colloidal Nanoparticles from Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-graft-DNA for Single Nucleotide Discrimination Based on Salt-induced Aggregation: Extension to Long Target DNA  Zhonglan Tang, Tohru Takarada, Yoshikuni Sato, and Mizuo Maeda [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 13, 2004

1604 Efficient Acetalization of Epoxy Rings on a Fullerene Cage  Yasuo Shigemitsu, Masayoshi Kaneko, Yusuke Tajima, and Kazuo Takeuchi [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 13, 2004

1606 Novel Dinuclear Copper(II) Complexes with syn–syn and syn–anti Coordination Modes of Bis(μ-phosphinato)-bridges: Structures and Magnetic Properties  Koichi Koga, Miki Ohtsubo, Yasunori Yamada, Masayuki Koikawa, and Tadashi Tokii [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 20, 2004

1608 Synthesis of Novel Nanocrystals as Fluorescent Sensors for Hg2+ Ions  Bo Chen, Ying Yu, Zhentao Zhou, and Ping Zhong [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 24, 2004

1610 Oxidation of Aldehydes on TiO2 Photocatalysts Modified with Alkylsilyl Group  Teruhisa Ohno, Toshiki Tsubota, Kosuke Kakiuchi, and Kazuhiro Sayama [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 20, 2004

1612 Hydrothermal Synthesis of a Novel Sodium Vanadium Bronze with Single-crystalline Nanobelt-like Morphology  Gen-Tao Zhou, Xin-Chen Wang, and Jimmy C. Yu [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 20, 2004

1614 CsOH·H2O-Promoted Synthesis of Aryl Sulfides via Direct Coupling of Aryl Halides and Thiols  Ravi Varala, E. Ramu, M. Mujahid Alam, and Srinivas R. Adapa [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 20, 2004

1616 A Templated Bimetallic Phosphate Open-structure with 16-MR Channels  Wei Chen, Yongnan Zhao, and Young-Uk Kwon [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 20, 2004

1618 Long-Term Sampling Method for PCDD/Fs in Atmosphere by Adsorption onto Economical Materials  Hideyuki Katsumata, Satoshi Kaneco, Tohru Suzuki, and Kiyohisa Ohta [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 20, 2004

1620 Formation of Niobates from Aqueous Peroxide Solution  Zhenxiang Cheng, Kiyoshi Ozawa, Akimitsu Miyazaki, and Hideo Kimura [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 20, 2004

1622 Porous/Disk-dual Microelectrode: Preparation and Electrochemical Detection of Methanol Electrooxidation Product at Pt/C Powder Electrocatalyst  Kohshi Kashima, Minoru Umeda, Akifumi Yamada, and Isamu Uchida [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 20, 2004

1624 Synthesis of an Electron Pooling Ligand Based on Triruthenium Clusters and Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 by Its Zinc(II) Complex  Brian K. Breedlove, Daisuke Takayama, and Tasuku Ito [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 20, 2004

1626 TTMPP Catalyzed One-pot Silyl Ketene Acetal–Imine Condensation Route to β-Lactams  Satoru Matsukawa and Kayoko Obu [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 20, 2004

1628 Vapor-Phase Dehydrogenation of Methanol to Methyl Formate in Catalytic Membrane Reactor with Pd/SiO2/Ceramic Composite Membrane  Yanglong Guo, Guanzhong Lu, Xunhua Mo, and Yunsong Wang [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 20, 2004

1630 Effect of Methyl Groups onto Imidazolium Cation Ring on Liquid Crystallinity and Ionic Conductivity of Amphiphilic Ionic Liquids  Tomohiro Mukai, Masafumi Yoshio, Takashi Kato, and Hiroyuki Ohno [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 20, 2004

1632 Novel Field-effect Transistors Based on Bis(1,3-dithiol-2-ylidene) Compounds with a Conjugated Spacer Group  Yosuke Morioka, Jun-ichi Nishida, Eiichi Fujiwara, Hirokazu Tada, and Yoshiro Yamashita [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 20, 2004

1634 Precise Determination of the Atmospheric CF4 Concentration by Using Natural Kr in the Atmosphere as an Internal Reference in the Preconcentration/GC/MS Analysis  Nobuyuki Aoki and Yoshihiro Makide [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 20, 2004

1636 Low-melting, Low-viscous, Hydrophobic Ionic Liquids: N-Alkyl(alkyl ether)-N-methylpyrrolidinium Perfluoroethyltrifluoroborate  Zhi-Bin Zhou, Hajime Matsumoto, and Kuniaki Tatsumi [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 20, 2004

1638 Novel SiO2 Nanotubes: Synthesis from ZnS Nanowires Templates and Visible Photoluminescence at 615 nm  Yan Li, Chang-Hui Ye, Li-De Zhang, Xiao-Sheng Fang, and Yu-Gang Zhang [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

Web Release Date: November 24, 2004

1640 Long-range Ordering in Water–Halide Ion Interactions: A Database Study  Ponraj Prabakaran and Maria G. Singarayan [Full Text PDF(J-STAGE)]

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